Became Quote by Maripol

I was essentially bankrupt at the age of 16. That almost near-death experience kind of built the next success for me in business.

— Michael G. Rubin

I was a broke construction worker's kid.

— Carey Hart

I went freelance in 1996 and my children are now teenagers and it seemed right.

— Rachel Johnson

I was a single mother and had to earn money.

— Mahima Chaudhry

I've lived a life of unplanned freelance employment.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

In my 20s, I was a freelance writer with little money and living in a rabbit warren one-and-a-half-bedroom with a roommate.

— Alissa Quart

For 10 years, I'd been working as a freelance writer and editor, making money but not a living. It was a good arrangement family-wise,…

— Will Allison

I worked in a supermarket for a year; I worked in a finance department at a university, a pub, busking and singing. I tried…

— Julia Davis

I left school at the age of 16 with no education or income; taking the first job I could get working in a hair salon.

— Keeley Hazell

In my first start-up, I didn't get any salary for four years, so I had to move back with my parents.

— Travis Kalanick

My first job in construction paid my way through art school. I was building to pay my bills.

— Ty Pennington

I went back to bumming around New York, writing freelance stuff for Car & Driver and such.

— P. J. O'Rourke